Nearly a decade after the Lehman bankruptcy that set off the global financial crisis, and the continuing waves of fiscal and
regulatory crises that followed, geographical patterns of continuity and change in finance are slowly becoming apparent.
In Europe, the financial and monetary crisis have resulted in the reworking of the Eurozone through several new layers of
EU regulation that have rejuvenated distinctions between European cores and peripheries. On the urban scale, this has
translated into shifts in the division of labor across European financial centers as new rounds of 'financial innovation' and
regulatory arbitrage intermingle with historically grown patterns. All the while, European financial institutions and the
wider Advanced Producer Services (APS) complex – including accountants, auditors, lawyers, and management consultants
who have been deeply implicated in the genesis of the crisis – have seemingly resumed to business-as-usual and now
seem closer than ever to the circles of European policymakers as the latter set out to reboot the financial system.
Nevertheless, political events such as the Brexit, or technological advancements enmeshed with the rise of Financial
Technology, promise to upset if not revolutionize existing business models as well as the geographical organization of the
APS complex. In other words, behind the veil of continued financial supremacy resides a world in flux on the scale of the
firm, the region and the continent– a perpetually reworking of the organizational landscapes of finance that urgently
needs further unpacking.

Fortunately, these developments do not have to take us by surprise. The financial crisis and its continuing aftermath has
resulted in an increasing interest across the social sciences for the world of finance. In human geography, the field of
financial geography has risen to prominence, with ever-more scholars dedicated to unpack and theorize geographies
integral to or impacted by sprawling financial logics, motives, and practices. We welcome papers that build upon the
growing insights of financial geography to further investigate evolutions in the post-crisis geographies of finance in
particular and APS more generally, across financial centers, and to compare and contrast their operational, poltical, and
investment imprints on urban space across Europe. Our primary focus is to map out these dynamics across the European
financial center landscape, but we are open for firm‐ or sector‐based contributions to go beyond the purview of Europe,
or that embed European geographies in a wider global or interregional perspective. Sessions will focus on, but are not
limited to:

Investigations of distinct urban geographies of APS clusters and their “professional” workers in key cities/financial
centers in Europe and elsewhere e.g. mapping the historical and contemporary evolution of firms, sector-, network presence in key cities/financial centers;

Studies detailing the local consequences or variegated geographical imprints of global finance upon urban
landscapes, or financialization of urban landscapes, e.g. tracing emerging real-estate bubbles, offshore/absentee
ownership of luxury properties in key cities, or the financialization of relatively neglected urban domains, such as
governments, (quasi) public institutions, and the state.